Election
1999
****
Director: Alexander Payne
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Matthew Broderick, Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell, Phil Reeves, Molly Hagan, Colleen Camp, Nicholas D'Agosto, Jeanine Jackson, Holmes Osborne, Mark Harelik
As his personal life lies in ruins, a mild-mannered schoolteacher finds himself at odds with an entitled overachiever who runs for student body president. Alexander Payne's dark satire on ambition and ethics is dry, smart, and funny. The characters are wonderful, and Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon are the standouts in a great cast. Based on Tom Perrotta's 1998 novel.
